Disable Digital Signatures Completely

Hello,
My company is not yet on board with digital signatures, and occassionally people attempt to turn in their forms digitally (with digital signatures) when they should be turning them in on paper with hand written signatures.
I'm wondering if there is a way to disable electronic signatures when creating a document in Adobe LiveCycle. Right now the only option I have is writing text beneath the signature field saying, "Please don't use electronic signatures", and this isn't exactly ideal.
Thank you.

You can either remove the signature field from the form till it's implemented in your organization or modify the form to make the signature field as hidden/invisible.

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how can I disable the digital signature feature?

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After rights are extended to reader (my users will use reader to fill out this pdf)
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